FIRSTBORN

Passages on this topic · 78

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Exodus 4:22

  You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

• Exodus 11:5

  and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 12:12

  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 13:2

  “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

• Exodus 13:12

  that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh’s.

• Exodus 13:13

  Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

• Exodus 13:14

  It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

• Exodus 13:15

  When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

• Exodus 13:16

  It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

• Exodus 22:29

  “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

• Exodus 22:30

  You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

• Exodus 34:19

  “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

• Exodus 34:20

  You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.

• Leviticus 27:26

  “‘Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep. It is Yahweh’s.

• Leviticus 27:27

  If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

• Numbers 3:12

  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

• Numbers 3:13

  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

• Numbers 3:40

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

• Numbers 3:41

  You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”

• Numbers 3:42

  Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 3:43

  All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

• Numbers 3:44

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 3:45

  “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 3:46

  For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,

• Numbers 3:47

  you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs ):

• Numbers 3:48

  and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

• Numbers 3:49

  Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

• Numbers 3:50

  from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

• Numbers 3:51

  and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Numbers 8:16

  For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

• Numbers 8:17

  For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

• Numbers 8:18

  I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 18:15

  Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

• Numbers 18:16

  You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.

• Numbers 18:17

  “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 33:4

  while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also executed judgments on their gods.

• Deuteronomy 15:19

  You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 15:20

  You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

• Deuteronomy 15:21

  If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 15:22

  You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.

• Deuteronomy 15:23

  Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• 1 Kings 2:15

  He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

• 1 Chronicles 5:2

  For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s) —

• 1 Chronicles 26:10

  Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

• Nehemiah 10:36

  also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

• Psalms 89:27

  I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Ezekiel 20:26

  and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’

• Romans 8:29

  For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

• Romans 9:12

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Colossians 1:15

  who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

• Hebrews 1:6

  When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• Hebrews 12:23

  to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

• Revelation 1:5

  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;